Ovechkin scores, sets up late winner as Caps beat Rangers
ByReuters
Published 01/05/2015 at 02:57 GMT
April 30 (The Sports Xchange) - Joel Ward scored with 1.3 seconds left to give the Washington Capitals a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers in Game One of their Eastern Conference semi-final series at Madison Square Garden on Thursday.
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Alex Ovechkin, who scored the opener, set up the winner when he centered the puck from behind the net to Ward, who beat Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist along the ice.
The dramatic finish came after Rangers' fourth-line winger Jesper Fast tied the game with less than five minutes remaining.
Ovechkin opened the scoring late in the first period when he used Rangers defenseman Dan Boyle as a screen and launched a wrist shot from the top of the face-off circle that beat Lundqvist high to the stick side.
The puck was in and out of the net so quickly some fans were not sure it was a goal.
Ovechkin nearly made it 2-0 early in the second when his wrist shot beat Lundqvist but the puck rang off the crossbar. (Compiled by Andrew Both; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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